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As with many things on the IT market, there is no unique definition of Application Performance Management (APM), yet. For me it has become an exciting key IT discipline (within Systems Management) as maintaining the performance and availability of applications is the primary service IT departments should provide to the enterprise. A possible definition of APM might also be in short – and from my point of view – that APM is the ability to manage the performance of software by both monitoring performance at runtime and explore implementation errors at design time to avoid unexpected behavior or delays in user interactions. Key to that is the usage of IT metrics by defining meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPI), which need to be verified and aggregated into performance dashboards to get an immediate view on the overall performance of the system. These KPIs can be specified all the way from the hardware until the end-user e.g. for latency on the network, on the response time of application packages, for the duration of tasks in workflow management systems, as well as the time until an end-user receives a response on his web interface. more

Modernization aligns IT with business

Modernization is the continuous evolution of an organization’s application infrastructure. This evolution enables companies to handle volatile requirements. The goal is to align modern technologies, skill sets, and capabilities – to replace legacy environments – with ever changing business strategies. More